Rhu-Na-Haven, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne

Rhu-Na-Haven, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1907 with wings added in 1911, is a two-storey, seven-bay Arts and Crafts house built to an L-plan. The interior decoration was carried out by Lorimer himself, alongside Louis Deuchars, Scott Morton & Co, Thomas Hadden, and the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts. The exterior is rendered in tooled coursed granite with raised finely finished margins, featuring rounded reveals, an eaves course, curvilinear gables, and curvilinear gableted windows that break the eaves line to the attic floor.

The principal south-west elevation is near-symmetrical, with the central three bays advanced and canted, topped with a turret roof. A glazed door to the ground floor of the penultimate bay to the right is flanked by a window to the outer right, with regular fenestration to the first floor. The 1911 penultimate bay to the left and outer left bay display regular fenestration to both ground and first floors.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical and comprises four bays. The penultimate bay to the left has windows to ground and first floors, while the gabled bay to the outer left features a canted ground-floor window, a first-floor window, and a blind vertical opening in the gablehead. An M-gabled penultimate bay to the right and outer right bay are advanced, with the outer right bay added in 1911. A flat-coped wall advanced between bays accommodates a flat-roofed porch flanked by a timber lean-to addition and low granite enclosure to the re-entrant angle to the right. Regular fenestration appears to ground and first floors, with blind vertical openings in the gableheads. The left return of the penultimate right bay has windows to ground and first floors. A flat-roofed single-storey addition to the outer right contains a ground-floor window with a curved outer angle, while a single-storey addition obscures the right return, featuring two ground-floor windows and a first-floor window to the centre.

The north-east elevation is asymmetrical and spans seven bays, featuring a three-storey, half-engaged tower at the central bay with a ground-floor window and a decorative pedimented window to the second floor. An architraved doorway with a central tooled panel inscribed "1907" opens to the ground floor of the right return beneath a loggia, fitted with a linen-folded two-leaf timber door and a decorative pedimented window to the first floor. Crowstepped gables run along this elevation. A round-arched 1911 loggia advances to the ground floor of two recessed flanking bays to the right, each with two windows to the first floor. An advanced flue rises from the centre of the wall at the outer right bay. The penultimate bay to the left and the third bay from the left are slightly advanced; the former contains a large stair window to the right, flanked below by a two-pane window, whilst both feature small four-pane bipartite windows to ground and first floors. The gabled outer left bay is advanced, with an off-centre ground-floor window to the left, paired first-floor windows, and a blind vertical opening in the gablehead. The right return displays irregular ground-floor fenestration with a first-floor window to the centre, flanked to the right by two small four-pane windows.

The north-west elevation dates to 1911, is asymmetrical, and comprises two bays. The bay to the right features a canted ground-floor window flanked to the left by a window, with a window to each bay of the first floor.

Windows are predominantly four-pane and six-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is of grey slate, piended in places, with a lead ridge. Stone skews are coped and feature decorative scrolled skewputts. Coped granite ridge stacks, predominantly, bear circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior preserves high-quality finishes throughout, including skirting boards, cornices, light switches, decorative plasterwork, and panelled ceilings. The oak-panelled entrance hall features a decorative tiled fireplace, an oak stair, and a fine plasterwork ceiling with an elaborate oxidised silver light fitting by the Bromsgrove Guild. Oak panelling by Scott Morton & Co is evident in the library. Fireplaces in the library and the adjacent room bear carved work by Louis Reid Deuchars, supplied by Allen and Sons in 1908, with a fire grate by Thomas Hadden. Original scullery and bathroom furniture survives.

The garden setting includes ornaments and statuary. The house is raised on a coursed, flat-coped wall to an upper terrace on the south-west, accessed by a central flight of stone steps flanked at the top by two carved stone urns. A lead statue titled 'The Snake Charmer', depicting a child playing panpipes within a granite basin, sits to the south-east of the house, with two smaller statues of children to the east; all three pieces are from the Bromsgrove Guild, dated 1908. The ground is paved with irregular polygonal stones. A vertically boarded rustic timber ancillary structure of square plan stands to the south of the house, fitted with window openings to the west.